Picture Editing

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004, Alan Jackson wrote:
...
>For a one-off it would be worthwhile to spend some time and do a lot by hand.
>
>Zoom in real close and use combinations of the paintbrush, copy&paste
>(as you suggest), airbrush, and smudge. Another trick is to select a
>region by color, maybe adjust it a little by growing and shrinking the
>selection, and then airbrush or smudge inside the selection. Keeps
>things under control.

The gimp clone tool (looks like a little rubber stamp) is often the easiest
way to handle thing slike this.  You can ctrl-left click to pick up color
near where you want to hide something, then use normal brush strokes to
paint over the offending areas.  First select an appropriate brush, then
work through the problem area.  I've used this many times to fixed scanned
pictures which had scratches and missing dye on the negatives or prints.

..
>Recommended : Grokking the Gimp - available online or from Amazon
>(or your favorite bookseller)

I found that pretty good, but haven't found the perfect gimp book yet.

Bill
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